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After sit-ins and marches in the South, things were beginning to change. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.…
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The First Car Behind the Locomotive
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
On the railroad, the Jim Crow car was usually the first car behind the coal-fired locomotive that belched soot, fumes, and engine heat. The assignment of space was not neutral. It placed Black passengers closest to the dirt and danger. Wilkerson’s detail makes the architecture of humiliation visible.
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